Natural Fertility Management (NFM) refers to the provision of information, education, herbal and nutritional support to individuals and couples seeking to improve their reproductive health and fertility.

NFM also enables a woman to effectively manage her own fertility at all stages of her reproductive life, and to do so in a way that assists her to gain optimum physical, emotional and mental health, without recourse to drugs or devices.

NFM is about education – women are shown how to recognise the clear and unmistakable signs of fertility and use these to assist them to avoid or achieve conception. Through learning and understanding the changes in our bodies, and the forces that affect them, we can come to a point of control through response rather than ignorance, suppression and manipulation.

Put simply, preconception health care aims to ensure that there is an adequate supply of all those nutritional factors, which are essential for the health of sperm, ova and foetus and an absence of those factors which are known to compromise general health or which are harmful to germ cells and to foetal development.

The combined evidence of many eminent researchers shows that conditions such as subfertility, miscarriage, low birth weight, premature birth, malformation, breast-feeding difficulties, handicap, hyperactivity, learning problems, asthma, eczema, and poor resistance to infection, are often preventable. This is achieved by attending to the health and lifestyle of both prospective parents before they conceive a child.

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